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Meeting of the Estates General
The Estates General were reluctantly summoned by King Louis XVI in May of 1789 with an aim to solve the monarchy’s financial crisis. There were three classes represented by the Estates General: the nobles, clergy and the rest of the population or the so-called Third Estate. Each estate had only one vote. As a result, the nobility and clergy could always overrule the Third Estate.
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National Assembly
The King was forced to call a meeting of the estates general. The 3rd estate was outvoted by the 1st and 2nd estates. The 3rd estate representatives stormed out of the meeting and decided to form their own parliment called " The National Assembly"and it would truly represent the French people. When the National Assembly returned the next day to meet, they discovered the door to the meeting room had been
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Tennis Court Oath
On June 17, the Third Estate decided to break from the Estates General and draw up their own constitution. They also dubbed themselves the "National Assembly." On June 20, 1789 they found themselves locked out of their regular meeting place, and so they gathered in an nearby tennis court and vowed that they would continue to meet until they had hey had established a new constitution for France.
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Attack on the Bastille
As the National Assembly continued to work on D.R.M, the King wasnt very happy. The King ordered his army to surround the ciity of Paris. The people of Paris freaked out and quickly formed local militias. They had planty of guns but not enough gun powder. The city of Paris had their gun powder supply at a fort/ prision called the Bastille. Thousands of Parisians attack the fort and successfully get the gun powder.
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Decleration of rights for Men
The National Assembly was forced to meet at a nearby tennis court. They had a plan to write a document with rights the French people should have. The document is called the Decleration of rights for men.
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Bread March
Early in the morning of October 5, 1789, a large group of French women came together in the central marketplace of Paris. What followed was the March to Versailles, one of the most violent episodes that occurred during the French Revolution. The March to Versailles was staged in an effort to obtain bread and force the high prices of bread down. Versailles was known as a royal paradise, reserved for the royal families and their entourages.
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Causes of French Revolution
1). France was bankrupt. They had fought in a lot of money fighting against England.
2).The Queen was spending a ton of money. Marie Antoninette was know for throwing expensive parties.
3). Bad harvests. Prior to the Revolution, France had serve droughts.
4). France was divided in 3 estates. 1st:clergy 2nd:Nobility 3rd:The commoners.
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The Royal Ecsape
The royal family was under house arrest in their palace in Paris. The national assembly forced the king to sign law after law and took more power away from the king. One night, the king and his family got in their royal carriage and using the cover of darkness they tried to head to Austria. The made it right to the Austrian boarder, but were spotted and captured and brought back to Paris.
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Dissolution of the National Assembly
The long awaited constitution finally came into effect on September 30, 1791. France was proclaimed a constitutional monarchy, while the National Assembly was dissolved and replaced by a new political body named the Legislative Assembly. No member of the National Assembly was elected to the new legislative body as it was agreed earlier that the members of the National Assembly would not be allowed to hold a seat in the new parliament.
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Flight to Varennes
The National Assembly continued working on a new constitution for France. After much debate, members of the Assembly decided to impose limits to the King’s authority. The King would have veto power but the National Assembly could overrule his veto. These restrictions appalled Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. They also felt like prisoners in their Tuileries Palace in Paris.
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War
The issue of war dominated the debate in the new Legislative Assembly. Tensions with the rest of Europe continued to rise. Revolutionary France was viewed with both fear and anger by the European monarchies, especially by the neighboring Austrian monarchy.. On April 20, 1792, France declared war on Austria.
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Death of King Louis
King Louis was beheaded. Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Britian, and the Dutch Republic decleared war on France and invaded. If France lost the war, then the French revolution would be crushed and Frances absolute monarchy would be restored. France won the war so the revolution wasnt crushed.
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Reign of terror
The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794),also known as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine, and another 25,000 in summary
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The Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory
The era following the ousting of Robespierre was known as the Thermidorian Reaction, and a period of governmental restructuring began, leading to the new Constitution of 1795 and a significantly more conservative National Convention. To control executive responsibilities and appointments, a group known as the Directory was formed.
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Result of the French Revolution
- It is an end to the monarchy in Europe. 2. The church lost most of its power. 3. People have rights/ freedoms now. 4. In France, there are no longer the three estates. The 3rd estate gained a lot and the 1st/2nd lost everything. Source: Notebook
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon leads his million man army and they take over most of Europe. Including Spain, Portugal, Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Austrian Empire, Italian States, and the German States.
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